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prince_n	daughter_n	king_n	wales_n	3,206	5	10.2634	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35221	The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, from Sally in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa ... secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... : with an account of the inhabitants of all these countries ... : also the birds, beasts, serpents and monsters and other strange creatures found there ... : likewise, a description of the Isle of St. Helena, where the English usually refresh in their Indian voyages by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1700 (1700)	Wing C7318; ESTC R21090	118,185	190

shall a time come when all ill men shall receive their deserts They imagin that their Friends after death become Spirits whom they call Iannanen and know all Transactions here below with whom therefore they hold familiar Colloquies acquainting them with all their troubles and adversities When they go into the Woods to hunt Elephants Buffles or upon any other dangerous Enterprize they go first and offer to the Spirit of their deceased Parents either a Cow Wine or Rice which they leave on the Grave They suppose them to reside in the Woods to whom they address themselves with great complaints and lamentations when in affliction where likewise their most Solemn Acts of Devotion are performed where no Women nor Children are permitted to come The King calls upon the Souls of his Father and Mother in every difficulty If a Woman be suspected of Adultery the complaining Husband desires she may be delivered up to Iannanen or the Spirits of his Ancestors and brings her in the Evening before the Council where calling the Spirits to her she is blindfolded admonished to forsake her evil Life and not to go to any but her own Husband and presently a great noise or murmur is raised as if Spirits did appear with some unintelligible though articulate sounds which are interpreted aloud to the whole Congregation with threatnings that if ever she commit the like offence again she shall be punished according to her demerits and with her Paramour be carried away by Iannanen to whom yet none are delivered up but upon clear evidence of their Guilt to which end they have a Water of Cursing or Divination wherewith they extort the Truth in all doubtful matters compounded of Barks and Herbs boiled together which when it is enough the Priest repeats secretly the names of the suspected persons or other matters to which the Witchcraft must be applied and then washes the Legs and Arms of those accused with fair Water after this he puts his Divining Staff which is bruised and tusted at the end into the Pot and drops or presseth the Water out of it upon the Arm or Leg of the suspected Person muttering these words over it If he be guilty of this or that then let this Water sc●…ld or burn him till the very Skin come off If the Party remain unhurt they judge him innocent and proceed to the Trial of another till they have discovered the Criminal who being found the Executioner instantly leads him bound and blindfold into a Field or Wood and placing him on his Knees with his Head bowed down he first runs him through the Body with a Scimetar and then c●…ops off his Head with an Ax for they do not believe he is dead till his Head is off The Carcase cut into four quarters after great lamentations they leave in the Field as a Prey to the Beasts and Fowls but the Friends take away the Head as a great Present and boiling it in a Kettle drink up the Broth hanging the Scull by their Fetisso or Idol The like Trial is made of other offences among the Blacks so that every one had need be very careful to prevent suspicion V. Commenda THis Fort is Four Square strongly built of Stone It hath Twenty Guns and Fourscore Europeans to defend it with many Negro's and Mulatto's Some time since Mendino the King of Manou died whose Subjects and Favourites made strict inquiry according to Custom how he came by his end but the narrowest of their scrutinies not being able to make any discovery they were forced to acquiesce yet had such an inveterate hatred against Manimassah his Brother that they forced him to the Trial which seeing no other Remedy he underwent without any hurt as a remarkable sign of his Innocence whereupon he demanded to be restored to his former Honour and Credit but instead thereof the Tryers told him The King in his Life time was our Common Father and should not we after his death endeavour to find out what caused him to dye it were a great shame for us we have examined and tryed you but it shall not remain so we will look farther into the business and make the Southsayers acquainted with it Manimassah mad at these inhumane usages burst forth at last into these words This shame is not to be suffered from my own Subjects in my own Countrey I will go under the Conduct of the Spirits of my deceased Friends and seek a dwelling place In this manner leaving his Native Countrey he travelled Northward into Gala inhabited by a mean and simple People and won so upon them by his endearing behaviour that they unanimously besought him to be their Prince to which he consented upon condition That they should give him some of their Plants and Venison for an acknowledgement of their subjection This they yielded to but such was their brutish Barbarism that though they owned him their Lord they used him as there Companion for being wholly unacquainted with Civility when any of them brought him Wine Rice or Flesh they came again to him to require their Callibashes or Basquets which unmannerly clownish behaviour Manimassah so resented that he withdrew from them to require assistance from Flansire King of Folgia whose Daughter he had Married to reduce the Gala's to his Authority The King hearing the request of his Son in Law lent him many Souldiers under the Conduct of Flonikerry his General who unexpectedly fell into Gala and subdued the People setling Manimassah in an absolute Dominion who hath ever since continued their Prince and taught them with sorrow more respective qualities after this Flonikerry returned to Folgia where he was received and welcomed with great applause and the King willing to gratifie him for his honest performances he according to Flonikerrys Petition gave him leave to go and Conquer and settle himself and his People in Cabo Monte an adjacent Countrey expressing his kindness in saying I shall do the desire of his Heart He with a considerable force Marching toward this place the Inhabitants being numerous and couragious were not soon subdued but at length tired with the continual onsets of their Enemies who shot poysoned Arrows which made all wounds though never so slight prove Mortal a fatal Invention unknown to these People they went with their Hoods upon their Heads as usual to ask favour which Flonikerry naturally inclined to pity easily granted bidding them go lie down with their Faces upon the ground then coming out of his Fort he trod upon them with his feet He then made an Agreement with them some Hens being killed in the presence of them all of whose Blood the Conquered swallowed a little as a token of Friendship Afterward the Hens were boiled and the Flesh eaten among them only the Legs were kept for a perpetual Remembrance for if any Man after that time broke his promise to him were the Legs shown who upon sight thereof soon reca●…ted for fear of the punishment that would follow Flonikerry overjoyed

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